Honestly, ten years doesn’t seem like much when you’re living through it. A decade passes and you look back thinking ...

It’s hard to imagine the 1990s hip-hop revolution without the looming figure of Suge Knight. As the co-founder of Death Row ...

Imagine getting a birthday invitation to dress like rappers in 2025. What exactly do you even wear? Skinny jeans? The 50-plus-year-old genre has had distinct moments within the fashion industry in the ...

The genre of hip-hop was kicked off in the 1970s in the public parks in New York City. There, DJs would plug their setups into public light fixtures and supply the neighborhood with party music, ...

It’s looking like television and film executives learned a thing or two from the success of Dope, the coming-of-age story of three teenagers enthralled by the world of early 1990s hip-hop in ...

Salt-N-Pepa at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson) Salt-N-Pepa, a name that symbolizes their spicy and bold approach to music, emerged from Queens, New York, in 1986 ...

WHO ARE THEY: With the 1990 single “Ice Ice Baby,” Vanilla Ice became the first hip-hop artist to reach the top of the Billboard pop charts. The following year he starred in the big screen flop “Cool ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of That’s My Word, an ongoing KQED series about Bay Area hip-hop history. “I’ll never lose that spirit, but I don’t miss being on the street from morning to night,” ...

Bruce Springsteen experiments with loops, synthesizers and the rhythms of mid-1990s hip-hop on “Blind Spot,” the second song to emerge from his long-awaited collection of unreleased music, Tracks II: ...

The integration of hip hop culture into the world of sports has created a dynamic and influential relationship. Hip hop culture originated in the Bronx, New York, during the 1970s. DJ Kool Herc, often ...